Aftershocks - Nadia Owusu

Aftershocks

Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2022
Sceptre (Verlag)
978-1-5293-4289-5 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics
*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ***

'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST

'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES

'Brilliant and devastating . . . tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES

'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' RED

Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured.

Aftershocks is the account of how she hauled herself out of the wreckage. It is the intimate story behind the news of immigration and division dominating contemporary politics. It is a nuanced portrait of globalisation from the inside in a fractured world in crisis.

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. Her lyric essay chapbook, So Devilish a Fire, was a winner of The Atlas Review chapbook series and was published in 2019. Nadia grew up in Rome, Addis Ababa, Kampala, Dar es Salaam, Kumasi, and London. By day, she is the director of storytelling at Frontline Solutions, a black-owned consulting firm that helps social-change organizations to define goals, execute plans, and evaluate impact. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times, the Washington Post's The Lily, Orion, the Literary Review, the Paris Review Daily, Catapult, Bon Appétit, and others. She is a graduate of Pace University (BA), Hunter College (MS), and the Mountainview MFA program where she now teaches and where she won the Robert J. Begeibing Prize for exceptional work.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 126 x 196 mm
Gewicht 222 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5293-4289-9 / 1529342899
ISBN-13 978-1-5293-4289-5 / 9781529342895
Zustand Neuware
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